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and near Otniovapa, where I observed two of these birds 

 pairing on the llth of January. 



This Cuckoo feeds on larvae. 



Measurements of a male and a female : 



Entire length 

 Length of foldec 

 tarsus 

 middl 

 taH 

 bill 



277. Chrysococcyx Klaasi (Steph.). Klaas's Cuckoo. 



Le Coitcou de Klaas, Levaillant's Ois. d'Afr. pi. 212. 



CJialcites Klaasii, Layard's Cat. No. 494. 



Chrysococcyx Klaasi, Finsch & Hartlaub's Vogel Ost-Afrika's, p. 520. 



I shot on the Swakop River (a day's journey from 

 Objimbinque) a single individual of this species, which 

 was the only one that I procured in any of the countries 

 to the ornithology of which these pages refer. 



[The specimen above referred to not having been comprised 

 in Mr. Andersson's last collection, I am unable to confirm by 

 personal observation his identification of it, which, however, 

 from the detailed description contained in his MS. notes, I have 

 no doubt is correct. 



Mr. Andersson also records in his notes his belief that 

 C. splendidus (smaragdineus of Layard's Catalogue) occurs in 

 Damara Land during the rainy season, although he did not 

 succeed in procuring a specimen of it in that country. ED.] 



